Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:20:06 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: Arun Sharma <adsharma@unix-os.sc.intel.com>, ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can freebsd support intel ee870 chipset? Message-ID: <20021218032006.E40932A7EA@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20021218021001.GB1583@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
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Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 05:32:31PM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote: > > > > I could boot to the sysinstall screen with the RC1 CD on this > > platform (Tiger), but then the keyboard didn't work for me. > > Excellent! (the sysinstall part, not the keyboard part :-) > > > The platform requires a USB keyboard driver (doesn't have a PS/2 > > port). It looks like the ia64 GENERIC kernel doesn't have usb or ukbd > > enabled. But the i386 GENERIC kernel *does* have it enabled. Is it > > possible to enable it in ia64 GENERIC kernel before the 5.0 release ? > > Good info. I disabled USB because it caused the machine to hang, > but if you loaded it as a KLD after booting, everything was fine. > > It seems USB is too important to leave out. I'll look into it, The problem was that USB used to lock up the Tiger4 system I had for a while. Other than that (it was an 870 based system) it seemed to work fine. It exposed a whole new bunch of bugs that we had not run into on the 460GX/itanium1 boxes though. :-) Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message
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